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Why is hexbear called hexbear?
(hexbear.net)
I'm also curious about c/chapotraphouse
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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The site used be chapo.chat because it was setup by a lifeboat discord server from r/chapotraphouse (which despite the name only had the most tenuous historical link to the podcast and was just a general leftist sub that managed to avoid being sectarian).
Eventually there was an open discussion about a new name to establish the site as its own standalone community and to drop the chapo reference in the name due to there not being a link to cth anymore, and hexbear either was the most popular or just got picked by admin fiat, I can't remember which. I do remember some people being mad about it, but that went away quick one way or another.
Did the vegan struggle sesh of (2020?) not have anything to do with the name change either? I remember this place was in shambles when that was happening, with all the brigading and what not. The name changed def coincided with with the mass ban wave of the time.
But maybe this is just my own revisionist history or something idk
vegan struggle sesh happened after. that did suck ass though.
ah my bad. I just remember the name change and the struggle sesh happening around the same time. guess I got the order wrong.